Re: [Xen-users] 'Link veth0 is missing' - caused by having no 'ip' command

[Alvin Starr <alvin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Jones wrote:

> I get the error attached below when I run network-bridge start by
> hand.  I have a veth0 interface.  Looking at the script, it seems the
> reason the command fails is because the script tries to run this
> function to test for veth0:
>
> link_exists()
> {
>    if ip link show "$1" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>    then
>        return 0
>    else
>        return 1
>    fi
> }
>
> But there is no "ip" command under Linux, and it doesn't look like Xen
> installs one either.  How do I get this command?
>
> Rich.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge start
>
> Link veth0 is missing.
> This may be because you have reached the limit of the number of interfaces
> that the loopback driver supports.  If the loopback driver is a module, you
> may raise this limit by passing it as a parameter (nloopbacks=<N>); if the
> driver is compiled statically into the kernel, then you may set the parameter
> using loopback.nloopbacks=<N> on the domain 0 kernel command line.
>
>
>  
ip is part of the iproute package.
I guess that should be added to the list of xen dependencies.

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